2sDay wrote:EminemBase wrote:^ Well I don't think it's overused since he was trying to create a new style or set of styles with the accents.
Which he did. He likes to sound different and fresh every album.
So it would of been weird if he just used it on like 3 songs on the whole album lmao. Would of sounded totally random and unconsistant.
you make a point but honestly....
do you prefer accent(s) or normal, sometimes angry voice?
Erm... Well right now I prefer the accent(s) because it sounds fresh.
I've heard his "The Way I Am" voice, I don't really wanna hear him repeat flows.
Obviously most other rappers keep one or two flows forever and it doesn't bother people. But Em has made it his art to change his flow literally nearly every other track.
So if I heard the same flow, it wouldn't feel fresh as I'm so used to hearing him change. That's part of what makes it exciting to anticipate new Eminem material. Waiting to hear how he will sound. Put it this way, I'm certainly glad he did create the songs he did for Relapse and Refill. Using the voices he did. Otherwise I wouldn't have "Stay Wide Awake", "3am" or "Buffalo Bill" amongst others.
There's something about these new flows that feels more addictive than ever. He's not even using that complex vocab now, he's just writing the lyrics in such a way and flowing them so interestingly and using the accent(s) to bolderize the rhymes so much. It makes the tracks fascinating.
This is also one of the things that puts him way above Canibus to me. Canibus desperately grasps for complex vocabulary to convey tid-bits of pop-psychology and neuroscience to try and show-off his skim-knowledge of terminology. Where as Em can use very basic words and still sound more intricate by the way he places and flows the words. Not to mention his poetic phrasing and abstract linking.
It makes them feel layered and crafted. Like the first few times I'm just enjoying it. Next few times trying to decipher every single line. Next few times enjoying it and trying to flow along. You keep hearing and appreciating new things.
This is what gives the new tracks ultimate replay value for me. It's not all about content. Besides which I find serial killer songs greatly entertaining anyway. Nothing gives you as much opportunity for vivid imagery and manic wordplay as murder. Or something like that, something extreme that you can fictionalize and exaggerate.
He couldn't do it as excitingly as he's been doing if he was just rapping about depressive emotions.